This is a hopeless task. At a time when tales – not just your everyday story of deadbeat dads – but tales of rape and habitual paternal molestation are the topic of the day… At a time like this I want to remember my kind, interesting, amazing dads – all three of them.Continue reading “A Tribute to My Three Fathers”
Author Archives: Galina DeRoeck
Cassandra
Cassie was a happy girl. When she woke up, the sunbeam that had managed to steal trough the pinhole in the Venetian blinds painted jumping rabbits in all the colors of the rainbow right on the wall of her room. She always brushed her teeth after breakfast, like a good girl, and the toothpaste tooContinue reading “Cassandra”
On the Streets of St. Leninsburg
My very first trip to what was then the Soviet Union took place in 1984. As I sat on the plane it occurred to me that the year “1984” had caught up with the title of George Orwell’s famous dystopia, and the thought crystallized all my own misgivings and secret fears. I had read theContinue reading “On the Streets of St. Leninsburg”
NATO: What is the NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
As I announced in my blurb, its job after World War II was to keep the Soviets out, the Americans in, and the Germans down. First and foremost, to keep the Soviets out of Western Europe, which, it was expected, they would invade any day now. Had they not overrun Poland, Czechoslovakia Hungary, Bulgaria, RomaniaContinue reading “NATO: What is the NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?”
The Game
Supper time. She’s done ahead of him, although she’s the one supposed to be eating for two now. What’s left is too much to eat, too little to save. She looks at David, who raises his hand, showing his palm in a “stop” gesture. She stacks the salad bowl on top of the spaghetti dish.Continue reading “The Game”
